Choreographing Empire: Prophesy, Folk Dance, and the Politics of Christian Zionism
When:
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, 1515, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Caroline Stevens
Group: Department of Art History
Co-Sponsor:
Middle East and North African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings, Fine Arts
Description:
Artist Talk by Tali Keren
Moderators:
Evgeny Stolyarov (NU JVP)
Ruslana Lichtzier (PhD Candidate, Art History & MENA)
In this talk, Keren will discuss her latest film, Un-Charting (2023), that critically examines settler-colonial imaginaries projected onto Palestine while linking conservative American Evangelicalism, British imperialism, and Zionism. Through a layering of historical sources, contemporary documentary footage, animation and architectural rendering, Un-Charting presents the ideological, religious, and libidinal entanglements between empires in formation past and present. The work reveals how messianic myths travel across time and geography, fueling state-sanctioned violence and Palestinian erasure.